Word: troubadoring
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Mailer's main indictment of Millett is that she misunderstands and deliberately misrepresents her four main male targets: Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Jean Genèt and himself. He accuses her of judging Miller by contemporary standards, and not as a "wandering troubador of the Twenties," when "one followed the line of one's sexual impulse without a backward look at what was moral, responsible or remotely desirable for society." Millett's "critical misdemeanor" with Lawrence is treating him out of sequence "to conceal the pilgrimage, hide the life, cover over that emotional odyssey which took...
...have ever heard such tributes to themselves as Lara did through his week-long anniversary. Five ex-Presidents of Mexico sent messages of congratulation. President Ruiz Cortines embraced the troubador, 53 this week, and said: "Work for Mexico, Agustin." Lara went from Mexico City to Veracruz and then on to Córdoba, traveling along whole blocks of flower-covered streets lined with schoolchildren while factory whistles blew and bells tolled. Last week, overflowing with Mexico's adulation, he pursued his lovelorn triumphal path to Havana...
...Troubador" by Eugene Walter is a neatly humorous story of a solemn Louisiana boy and a credulous old lawyer. Much of my satisfaction with the story came from Walter's mastery of the intricacies of Southern language. The phrase, "Oh, I can't abide creepie-crawlies" evokes Texas and Louisiana more convincingly for me than any amount of slopped-on dialect. Matthiessen's story "A Replacement" rings true in its dialog between a captured American flier and a German officer in the dying days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young...
...Troubador" will leave Newport with the fleet Thursday, June 18, and is expected back July 2; average time for the distance is six days. Built in 1926 and owned by Henry Baay, Inc. of Marblehead, the "Troubador" with her gaff schooner rig, will hold her own better off the wind either running or reaching than she will tacking...
Hence, Skipper Braisted hopes that the 1948 race conditions will again prevail; at that time all but 65 miles of the run was a reach. The "Troubador" recently raced in the Miami-Nassau race, doing well, while her sister ship, the "Astrea" won the class B title in the March St. Petersburg-Havana race...